Ecotourism

Felex Kamalha Kireru

Community Tourism and Conservation Awareness Programme to Foster Social and Economic Empowerment at Kikorongo Community

The project will aim to establish an eco tourism site and offer skills training and facilitation to improve community cooperation with the park and sustainable production of local goods and services for income generation.

Pascual Rafael Escobar

Conservation of a Humid Subtropical Ecosystem through Ecotourism in the Finca Loma Linda

The Loma Linda Ecotourism Project aims to protect a fragile subtropical mountain ecosystem while revitalizing a small, impoverished agricultural community.

Johanna Kolehmainen

Magoroto Mlinga Community Ecotourism Project

This project aims to explore the possibility of developing community-based ecotourism as a strategy to integrate forest conservation and community development in Magoroto and Mlinga forests in the East Usambara Mountains, NE Tanzania.

Suman Sharma

Potential Impact and Opportunities for Ecotourism in Annapurana Conservation Area

The aim of this project is to investigate the possible opportunities for ecotourism in the Annapurna Conservation Area and how it would impact on the community and how these two things can be managed side by side. The project will act as a baseline for the development of ecotourism by increasing livelihood opportunities and the conservation awareness level of local people.

Catalina Molina

Promoting Responsible Marine Tourism through the Development of Sustainable Practice Guidelines

This project will create precedents for the adoption of best environmental practices among the marine tourism operators. We expect to regulate marine tourism in the region through the enhancement of responsible practices and the understanding of marine tourism impacts.

Ivan Svetozarevic

Biodiversity Protection though Ecotourism Development in Djerdap National Park, Serbia

This project aims to develop community-based ecotourism strategy which will integrate forest conservation and community sustainable development.

David Nkwanga

Pro-Poor Community Eco-Tourism Window for Sustainable Ecosystem Conservation, Community Participation and Wise Use of Mabamba Bay Ramsar Site, Uganda

The project aims at laying a firm foundation for Ecosystem conservation, Community Participation and wise-use through the eco-tourism window.

Christian Tabifor

Awareness Campaign for the Protection of Endangered Great Apes in the Tubah Upland Forest

This project aims to help in the conservation of the great apes population in Tubah Upland Forest through community awareness campaign.

Chris Sandbrook

Bwindi Advanced Market Gardeners’ Association (AMAGARA)

Bwindi AMAGARA aims to create linkages between local farmers and the tourism industry at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. This helps to alleviate poverty in the area, and creates direct incentives for local people to support the conservation of mountain gorillas and their forest habitat upon which tourism depends.

Nirmala Pradhan

An Assessment of Biodiversity in Panch Pokhari of Sindhupalchok District of Central Nepal Emphasizing Conservation Needs

This work aims to explore out the existing biodiversity of Panch Pokhari before tourism promotional activity is established here under broader way. Local community will be motivated in conservation work, rare and endangered flora and fauna will be prioritized into the protected list of the country.